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Consortium Agreement

EFPC provides in-house and public workshops on how to hold successful Grant Agreement Negotiations which include the preparation of the Description of Work. Please contact us here for more information.

Possibly, the most important document as the commission have moved most of the responsibility to the consortium itself, and have thus made it compulsory to have a Consortium Agreement, unless this has been exempted by the call for proposals. However, even then, you should have one to protect your interests.

The Agreement is between the partners and the Commission will not wish to see it. However this is a mandatory document that must be prepared and signed by the partners prior to official start of the project and by each additional partner prior to him joining the project.The Consortium Agreement should cover details of working arrangements and money transfers beyond that in the Technical Annex or Project Program. It should set out the internal management guidelines for the consortium and can provide for arrangements relating, for instance, to the granting of specific access rights in addition to those provided for in the standard IPR provisions.

Consortium Agreements may not conflict with the provisions of the contract or the Regulation. Although, the participation rules state that Consortium Agreements are mandatory, except where otherwise provided in the call for proposals, they do not specify what they must contain.Accordingly, this requirement does not conflict with any flexibility objective and should not be seen as an administrative burden, but as a signal drawing the attention of the contractors to the importance of Consortium Agreements.

Consortia Agreements could include any or all of the following clauses:

Technical provisions

·Technical contribution of each party (unless sufficiently detailed in the Annex I to the EC contract)